The World Today

A leading property analyst is warning that the risk of a crash in Australia's two biggest property markets is rising as fast as the prices. In his 2017 outlook report, SQM Research managing director Louis Christopher is forecasting one more year of spectacular price growth for Sydney and Melbourne, and that 2018 is shaping up as a year of reckoning.

A new report by the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council shows the number of prisoners in Victoria has risen 67 per cent in ten years. For Indigenous Australians the number 147 per cent and for females it is 75 per cent. Most of the increase comes because fewer violent offenders are being granted bail, but there has also been an increase in reports of violent crime. Some say incarcerating more people is counter productive and too expensive, but the attorney general says it is a price that must be paid to keep the community safe.

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is celebrating the 35th anniversary of John Williams' score to 'Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark'. It mightn't be their bread and butter of Mozart and Beethoven, but musicians say such performances improve their appreciation of the early classics.

As polls tighten in the final week of the US election campaign, political analyst Bill Whalen explains how US voters could ensure that neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump ends up in the White House.

Iraq's special forces have entered Mosul, the last major Iraqi stronghold of the Islamic State group. IS claimed the city in 2014 and decared a 'caliphate' that stetched into Syria.

The Turnbull Government is today defending accepting the vote of Family First Senator Bob Day, after it had sought legal advice about whether he could be ineligible to sit in the Senate. Labor is questioning whether the Government sat on the information it had because it wanted the vote of the conservative Senator from South Australia. The issue of whether Bob Day was eligible to be elected at the last election will now be decided by the High Court.

Amelia Earhart was an inspiration to millions when she disappeared trying to fly around the world almost 80 years ago. A group of US researchers thinks the common theory about her disappearance is wrong and they say they're close to proving it.

In Bob Day's home state of South Australia, his Family First arty has defended the embattled former senator. The party's leader says the Federal Government signed off on the financial arrangements over the leasing of his electoral office in Adelaide, and says it's astounding the issue has been raised three years on.

Health executives in western NSW have told a parliamentary inquiry that they first became aware of the under-dosing of cancer patients through the media. The Upper House committee has held a hearing in the city of Orange.

Gold Coast ratepayers will be stung $3 million to bring forward high speed internet, with the Council asserting it can't trust the NBN will be in place for the Commonwealth Games. The Council says he service is essential for media coverage and publicity for the 2020 Games . The Federal Government hasn't commented, while the NBN Co says it is 'aware' of the Gold Coast requirements.